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Free sign upThe sentence "I was sleeping when you called" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use this sentence when someone has called you and you were asleep when they called. For example: "I'm sorry I didn't answer the phone, I was sleeping when you called."
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Mr. Boehner laughed and confirmed that indeed he was sleeping when the call came.
The couple was sleeping when they got an early morning call from a bar near their business.
Remo was sleeping when they left.
"I was sleeping and my daughter called me.
Two years ago, Georgetown University students Evan Sterrett, Jimmy Ramirez and Carolyn Lehman made a short film called Sleep When You're Dead, seeking to highlight Georgetown's unhealthy sleep culture.
Sleep when you're tired.
That is when you call the professionals.
You could call her an absentee parent: if she wasn't at work she was sleeping and when she wasn't sleeping all she did was scream and hit.
Last year, an 18 year-old hairdresser in Liverpool called Michael Causer was sleeping on a friend's sofa after a party when he was woken up.
El Chapo was sleeping naked alongside his mistress, Lucero Sanchez, when the DEA and marines came calling.
The demonstrator called the pastor, who was sleeping next door.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com